Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in is an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today. Stopping in churches, parks, high school classrooms, back yards and bedrooms, I have collaborated with individuals from both urban and rural areas for over 6 years. With this ever-growing archive of portraits, I aim to highlight a national experience while acknowledging its many diverging, overlapping and at times conflicting parts.  Created as a joint effort with participants who boldly stand in front of my lens, Embodiment reveals images of love and survival, creative forms of gender expression and the ever-changing anatomy of a family. It is my hope that these photographs will become a lasting archive for generations to come.

Learn more about the Embodiment project at http://embodimentusa.com/.

If you like music you cannot miss this event. If you like helping people that like music you cannot miss this event.

about the bands:

Hell & Lula
‘We wanna make you dance, we wanna make you think. We want to make you think about dancing.” – Hell &

Lula
We’re three dudes, a chick, and a robot slave from L.A. playing music we enjoy and playing like we mean it.

We tour in a “Cool Bus” (a converted school bus), we’ve developed the first Recycled Merchandise Program we’ve ever heard of, and we help spread the message of our friends at Falling Whistles about the war in Congo, what can be done to stop it and how funds raised through the sale of whistles help rehabilitate war-affected kids.

hellandlula.com/

Sonar Lights
Sonar Lights hails from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and embraces a style of heavy alternative rock. The band’s sound is comprised of full guitar tones, rhythmic textures and a mix of eastern melodic vocals.
Self-produced and recorded in the band’s rehearsal space, their debut EP (2010) combined with their dynamic live shows, has earned the band critical praise from fans, local press, radio stations and fellow musicians alike.

Sonar Lights has had the privilege of opening for established Grammy award winning acts as Cowboy Mouth, Candle Box, Vince Neil and the B-52′s.

wix.com/aresoltero/sonar1

Sunshine
Electronic Rock Pop Duo of Jesse Denison, James Melloh will make your heart bleed… from the inside. Much like Icarus if you venture to close to them you well melt… from the outside.
sunshinebellingham.com

Learning Team
learningteam.bandcamp.com

Inmates created artwork using materials readily available; many pieces are drawn in pencil or pen on the backs of worksheets, intake forms or bible passages.

Come check out DJ Jason Taylor, and talk to Bellingham Books to Prisoners, who will be on site to offer information on how to send books or become a penpal to Whatcom County inmates.

Many thanks to Whatcom County Jail Chief Wendy Jones and her staff, who made this show possible. Poster design by John Overly.

Inside Out will be displayed in the Jinx Gallery throughout April and May. Our open hours are Tues-Sat 12pm to 4pm.

Now you can upload your Jinx pix right up to our Flickr! Right here at http://www.flickr.com/groups/jinxartspace/ Join the group and you are in business.

Make.Shift invites you to participate in our first full day of human powered holiday joy. By hopping on one of our Power Wheel bike generators this December 10 and 11, you’ll be among the few people in the world to light up a Christmas tree with nothing but sweat and festive cheer!

Beginning at 10 am at the Farmer’s Market in Depot Market Square, we’ll be cranking the generators for a full 24 hours until 10 am Sunday, December 11.

Riders will be going on an hour-long stationary riding tour of the square, with live entertainment, tasty refreshments, and of course – the fruit of their labors – A MAGNIFICENT HUMAN POWERED CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH THE NIGHT.

Riders pay a $10 entrance fee, and are encouraged to solicit sponsorship from employers, friends and relatives. Prizes will be awarded to the rider who brings in the most dough! Through these donations, our community will be doing its part to help support local, independent artists and musicians and the incredible things they do.

We only have two bikes, which means spots are limited! Go to the link below to sign up today:

http://signupgenius.com/go/cyclotron

SUPAH GOLD SPONSORS:

SAG WAGON CREW:

Moka Joe’s Coffee
Black Drop Coffee House
The Bagelry
Flax4life
Coconut Kenny’s
La Fiamma
Boundary Bay Brewery
Community Food Coop
Megan Flaherty
Paul Robbins

And of course we couldn’t do any of this without a Christmas tree! Big ups to Bellingham Pawn for donating the tree.

Make.Shift is happy to announce that Jinx Art Space will now have open office hours from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays – Fridays.

Come take a look at the gallery, peruse our zine library, or check out one of our open studios for rent!

BELLINGHAM – Local music nonprofit Make.Shift is debuting its new home Friday, Oct. 7, with an art show during the Downtown Art Walk.

Make.Shift’s new spot at 306 Flora St. will provide practice space for musicians, studio space for artists and a venue for live music, as well as room for other programs for local artists.

The group also has just signed a lease with the nonprofit Whatcom All-ages Arts & Music, allowing WhAAM to put on shows in the space, 306 Flora St.

“We’ve been working so long with WhAAM, and both groups have worked so hard to make this partnership happen,” said Make.Shift Director Cat Sieh. “It’s wonderful to see what’s come out of that relationship so far, and I’m excited to see what happens in the future.”

Make.Shift took over the business and lease for the Jinx Art Space building in July and has had plenty of help from volunteers and local businesses during the renovation process.

“It’s absolutely amazing to see the music community come together and support this project and see it come through,” Sieh said. “Everybody has been so gung ho, so supportive.”

Make.Shift will keep the upstairs space as a gallery, and will open with the group show “The Black Forest: Fear and Nature,” from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday. The event also will include the Bellingham Circus Guild and music by Bar Tabac.

Downstairs will remain a music venue, and there are practice spaces available for bands to rent. The Jinx sign remains out front.

WhAAM’s first show in the space will be 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, with a grand opening show 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22.

Sieh described the building as a constant work in progress as the group develops plans to offer classes, programs and more services for local artists and musicians.

“We have such a great framework to move forward,” she said.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To find out more about WhAAM and the shows it has scheduled for the month, go online to whaam.org. For information about Make.Shift, go to makeshiftproject.com.